Housing and adjustment for interlocking switches.



No.791,622. I I I PATENTEDJU-NEG, 1905.

w. T. HOLDEMAN & E. T. Pom). I I HOUSING AND ADJUSTMENT FORINTBRLOOKING'SWITGHES.

APPLICATION FILED HOV. 30,1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. HOLDEMAN AND ELBERT T. FORD, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA; SAIDHOLDEMAN ASSIGNOR ON E-EIGHTH OF HIS RIGHT TO LOUIS M. HEINTZ ANDONE-EIGHTH TO FRED SOMMER, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA.

HOUSING AND ADJUSTMENT FOR INTERLOCKING SWITCHES- SPEGIFICATION 'formingpart of Letters Patent No. 791,622, dated June 6, 1905.

Apjalicationfiled November 30,1904. Serial No. 234,888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM T. HOLDE- MAN and ELBERT T. FORD, citizensof the United States, residing at Hammond, in the Switches, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a new and improvedadjustment for interlocking switches and derails and a housing for samefor the purposes of preventing snow and ice and other debris frominterfering with the switch and derail adjustment.

With this object in view the invention consists of the detail ofconstruction and arrange- 11%61113, which will more fully appear hereinater.

' In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application,Figure 1 is a perspective view showing our invention in position. Fig. 2is a transverse'sectional view of the housing and adjustment. Fig. 3 isa sectional view along the line 3 3.

Like numerals and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inthe several views.

The letters A A designate the rails of a railroad fastened upon theusual sleepers in the usual manner, and B B designate the switchrailshaving the switch-bar 1 connected thereto and the said switch-bar havingthe interlocking switch-housing O, bolted thereto by means of the bolts2 3. The said switchhousing is of tubular construction having the endsthereof interiorly threaded and having the flange 4 integrally connectedtherewith.

D is the movable plug, being exteriorly threaded and having thebolt-head 5 of the usual construction for operating the said movableplug.

The numeral 6 designates the switch-operatin rod, and the same operateswithin the tubu ar plug 7, the plug 7 being eXteriorly threaded andoperating within the switchhousing 0 and is also provided with abolthead for operating same. The switch-o erating rod 6 is provided'withthe head 9, w 'ch conforms with the tubular interior of the switch-houseO. As can be readily seen, the formation of the interior of saidswitch-housing permits a lateral play, and the same can be adjusted bymeans of the plugs D and O.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a housing for interlocking switches and derails, the combination witha tubular housing having the interior ends threaded, anexteriorly-threaded movable plug working in one endlof said housing,aswitch-operatingrod WILLIAM T. HOLDEMAN. ELBERT T. FORD.

Witnesses JOHN EUBANKS,. MABEL REAUME

